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Giorgio Agamben - Gaza as State of Exception // 217
Pill pod discuss the public media representations of Epstein and Gaza before a seamless transition into a discussion of Giorgio Agamben's concepts of…
8 months ago
Pill Pod 215 - The New Woke Right ft. 1Dime
Pills is away, so 1Dime Tony came present a thesis he's working at. Tony rejoins the pill pod to excavate the terms "woke right" and the semiotics of…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Jacques Derrida: White Mythology (preview)
According to Derrida, metaphysicians have spent 2000 years conceptually boxing-in metaphor because they don't want to admit their dependence on figur…
9 months, 1 week ago
Self-Help via Merleau-Ponty and the Flesh of the World (preview)
We go deeper into Maurice Merleau-Ponty's insights in The Visible and The Invisible, e.g. The Flesh of the World, the Chiasm, and the Intertwining an…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Pill Pod 212 - The Mass Desire for Fascism
This week we looked into OG critic of fascism Wilhelm Reich, who wrote The Mass Psychology of Fascism right after the Nazis were elected in 1933. Rei…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Phenomenology via Buddhist Philosophy (preview)
We compare Maurice Merleau-Ponty's insights in an unfinished work he wrote before his death to the meditations of Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna 18 c…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Pill Pod 210 - New York Times LIES about "Fascism Experts" fleeing Trump
The New York Times has claimed that three "fascism experts" are fleeing Trump and "going abroad". In truth, these are not (all) fascism experts, and …
10 months ago
Who is Mark Carney? // 208
We catch you up on Canadian politics by introducing you to our new Prime Minister via his book VALUE(S): Building A Better World For All (https://amz…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Pill Pod 206 - Trump Declares War on Education
Yea we missed a lot of news, but we wanted to cover the Trump regime's war on higher education. As a group with a lot of university affiliations, we …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Pill Pod 205 - PlasticPills Discovers Buddhism
After a long hiatus, Pills returns to the main show with some new musings over The Last Samurai, Buddhism and the phenomenology of religion. The Kyot…
11 months ago